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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD router, as good as a harware router ?
Date: 7 Jan 1996 11:53:02 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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:In article <4cof7j$59@news.mistral.co.uk>, Pete <plaker@cybar.co.uk> wrote:
:>I've been convinced that FreeBSD would be a good OS for my pentium
:>mail/web/news/ftp LAN server, but can FreeBSD on a seperate
:>386 really be as reliable and more monitorable and configurable than
:>the 'black box' option ? If so, this is much much cheeper, why
:>doesn't EVERYBODY do this instead of spending a fortune on a hardware
:>router ?
:>
>Basically, if someone has really experienced both, what are the
:>advantages/disadvantages of both methods of routing ?
:>
:>Pete.
:>------------------------------------
I've found FreeBSD boxes to make excellent routers as long as you
do not have to run gated on them (i.e. for BGP or OSPF). If you need to
run a BGP or OSPF session, I'd spend the money and get a cisco.
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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